CVE-2012-5144

critical
Published 2012-12-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.97, and Libav 0.7.x before 0.7.7 and 0.8.x before 0.8.5, do not properly perform AAC decoding, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to "an off-by-one overwrite when switching to LTP profile from MAIN."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-5144

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0
suse suse12.1affected
suse suse12.2affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
libavlibav0.8
libavlibav0.8.1
libavlibav0.8.2
libavlibav0.8.3
libavlibav0.8.4
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"23.0.1271.96"}
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.0
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.1
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.2
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.3
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.4
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.5
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.6
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.7
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.8
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.9
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.10
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.11
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.12
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.13
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.14
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.15
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.16
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.17
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.18
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.19
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.20
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.21
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.22
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.23
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.24
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.26
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.30
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.31
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.32
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.33
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.35
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.36
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.37
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.38
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.39
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.40
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.41
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.44
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.45
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.46
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.49
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.50
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.51
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.52
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.53
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.54
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.55
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.56
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.57
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.58
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.59
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.60
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.61
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.62
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.64
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.83
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.84
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.85
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.86
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.87
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.88
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.89
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.91
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.92
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.93
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.94
gcp googlechrome23.0.1271.95
libavlibav0.7
libavlibav0.7.1
libavlibav0.7.2
libavlibav0.7.3
libavlibav0.7.4
libavlibav0.7.5
libavlibav0.7.6

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.